Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mythical Brooklyn with the magic snow of a Statue of Liberty souvenir. And when Cecelia finally encounters the first real American soldiers, she cannot speak with them, so they make her balloons out of their supply of condoms to carry back to the group as a beacon of hope...
...presents too broad a "cross section" for Soviet radar. Critics doubt that the B-1B design will fool Soviet radar either. Worse, they charge, the B-1B's own terrain-following radar, which it uses to navigate to the target, will send out what amounts to a beacon that enemy fighters and missiles can home in on. The doubters concede the B-1B's advanced avionics gear will do a better job of jamming Soviet radar, but add that the same avionics could be put aboard B-52s at a small cost. In sum, whatever edge...
...federal home improvement grants, the purchase of a $250,000 town house by two top White assistants for $1 in 1981, the activities of a fundraising committee formed six months after the aborted birthday party, a $10,3000 payment by the mayor's campaign committee to renovate his Beacon Hill townhouse, and the cashing of retirement and disability pension checks mailed to at least 12 dead city employees...
...artist in question is Mags (short for Margaret) Church. She lives in Manhattan and is about to have a one-woman show at a 57th Street gallery. With pride and belated affection, she visits her patrician parents on Boston's Beacon Hill. The house, which has been sold, greets Mags like a bare, ruined choir of lamentation. The great vaulting windows are naked, the marble fireplace mantelpiece is shrouded, and the living room floor is scattered with empty packing cartons. In the direst exodus of their lives, Fanny (Marian Seldes) and Gardner Church (Donald Moffat) are retreating, year-round...
Besides their obvious cruelty, such remarks needlessly block the possibility of compromise. Even in theaters where renovations leading to complete access would be costly or architecturally difficult, negotiations might well lead to a workable middle ground. At the Beacon Hill, for example, architects estimate that installing an elevator is prohibitively expensive, but handicapped groups say a chairlift next to the stairs would cost much less...